Knitted web.



R. W. SCOTT.

KNITTED WEB.

Patented FebJl?, 1914.

ROBERTw. SCOTT, OF LEEDS POINT, NEW ASSIGNMENTS, TO SCG'I'T is WILLIAMS, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

kunnen wen.

To all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, ROBERT W Soo'rT, a citizen of the United States, residing in Leeds Point, Atlantic county, New Jersey, have invented certain Improvements 1n Knitted Webs, of which the following is a speciiication.

My invention consists of certain improve ments in the knitted fabric constituting the subject of Letters Patent No. 618,017, dated January 17 1899, the object of my invention being to adapt said invention to fabrics prouced on machines havinga plurality of yarn feeds, and consequently having successive courses knitted'with different yarns.

- In 'the accompanying drawing-l `igure 'l is an exaggerated view of a piece of knitted JERSEY, SSIGNOR, BY DIRECT ANlD MESNE INCORPORATED, 0F CAMDEN, NEW JERSEY,

Specification of lletters Patent. Application filed January 14, 1,910.

web made in accordance with my inventioin' and Fig. 2 is a view illustrating, diagraminatically, a number of successive courses as they would appear in a piece of the 11nproved tubular knitted web split and laid out fiat. l v

In changing from one yarn to another in the production of knitted webs, there are, in each course in which the change is ed'ected, a certain number of stitches which are knitted with double yarns, the new yarn being fed to and knitted bysome of the needles before the old yarn has been withdrawn, and the invention of the above mentioned pat-l ent consisted in lengthening or slackening said double yarn stitches and those in -the adjacent portions oithe web, in orderto prevent cutting of the stitchesat the point where the two yarns were being fed to the needles. `Where a number of yarn feeds are employed, however, and the. successive courses of the fabric are knitted with 1n dependent yarns, even the lengthening of the stitches may fail to attain the desired result with certain kinds of yarn, if the change Vtakes place vin successive courses of stitches in substantially the same wales of the web. I. therefore effect the change of yarns in courses between which intervene plain or single yarn courses, so that no double yarn portions of successive courses vwill be inter-knitted with one ano-ther.

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applied to a fabric knitted with four feeds and producing four successive courses a,

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of yarn being effected in-courses' a,c, 62'55 and d2, and1 the double yarn portion of the course' d n being' interknitted with single yarn portions of the courses d and the double yarn portion of course c bein interknitted with single'yarn portions` o" the courses b and d', the double yarn portion of course b2 beinginterknitted with single yarn portions of the courses a2 and c2,- and the double yarn portion ofcourse d2 being interknitted with single yarn portions of the courses c2 and as.

All of the stitches in Whichdouble yarn is employed and all of the stitches-:with which said double. yarn stitches are interknitted are, by preference, drawnlonger or: slacker than the' stitches in the remainder of the fabric, and, in some cases, I also drawA closer stitches in the. body of the'fabiric withv one yarn than with the other, for instance, one yarn, say that represented by heavyI lines,l may be a heavy yarn and-the other' represented by light lines may be a light yarn, and in order to shape as Well as refy duce the bulk of the web in which the light yarn is employed, Indraw closer stitches of said light yarn than of theheavy yarn, as indicated in l? ig. l. f'

In the diagram shown in` Fig. 2, the heavy lines 'represent the medium length stitches drawn witlitlie heavy yarn, the lightv lines 85 represent the close stitches drawn withthe lighter, yarn, and the double lines represent the long stitches, the double yarn stitches being indicated by the overlapping of 'thev ends of the light and dark lines.

Any desired number of single yarn courses may intervene between the courses in which change is effected and double yarn stitches are produced.

T ie longer or slacker stitches in the double yarn portions of the change courses, and in the sin le yarn portions ofthe courses interknitted t erewith, are produced by increasing the draft upon those needlesof the machine upon which these stitches are being knitted.

The slackening of the stitches will not, in k practice,A occur only in those wales in which invention as l the double yarn stitches appear as this would involve an exactitude of operation of the machine not likely to be attained.

The term yarn as herein employed as meaning a single courses of the strand as each yarn may, if desired, be cornposed of two or more strands.

I claim:

1. A knitted fabric having successive courses of stitches knitted with independent yarns, and having double yarn stitches due to changes of yarn eii'ected at substantially the sainev wales,b but in separated single 2. A knitted fabric having successive courses of stitches knitted with independent yarns, and having doubleyarn stitches due to' eh'angesof yarn effected at substantially the same wales, but in separated single courses of the web, the double yarn stitches being slacker than the stitches in the body of i p the web.

3.V A knitted 'fabric having successive l i. courses of stitches knitted with independent the same wales,

' yarns, and having double vto changes of yarn effected at substantially yarns, and

yarns, and having double yarn ystitches due tocha'ngesyof yarn eifected at substantially i but in separated single courses of the web, the double yarn stitches and those interknitted therewith being slacker than those in the body of the web.

v 4. A knitted fabric having successive courses of stitches knitted with independent yarn stitches due the same wales, but in separated courses of the web, the yarns being alternately light and heavy, and' the light yarns forming closer stitches than body of the web.

5.A knitted fabric having successive courses of stitches knitted with independent having double yarn stitches due to changes of yarn eected. the same wales, but in separated courses of the web, the double. yarn stitches being the body of being alternately light the light yarns forming than the heavy yarns in the body of the web. l

the heavy yarns iii the at substantially l e incassa 6.5 A knitted fabric having successive courses of stitches knitted with independent yarns, and having double yarn stitches due to changes of yarn effected at substantially the same wales, but in separated courses of the web, the double yarn stitches and those interknitted therewith being slacker than those in the body of the web, the yarns being alternately light and heavy and the light yarns forming closer stitches than the heavy yarns in the body of the web.

7 A knitted fabric courses of stitches knitted with independent yarns, and having double yarn stitches due to changes of yarn eected at substantially the same wales, but in separatedeourses of the web, the double yarn stitches and those interknitted therewith being slacker than those in the body of the web, the yarns being alternately light and heavy, and some of the slackened stitches which are interknitted with the double yarn stitches being of the lighter yarn.

8. A knitted fabric having successive courses of stitches knitted with independent yarns, and having double yarn stitches due itc changes of yarn effected at substantially the saine wales, but in separated courses of the web, the double yarn stitches and those i interknitted therewith being slacker than those in the body of the web, the yarns beiiig alternately light and heavy, the light yarns forming closer stitches than the heavy yarns in the body of the web, and some of the slackened stitches which are interkritted with. the double yarn stitches being of the l lighter yarn.

In testimony naine to this specification, two subscribing witnesses.

ROBERT W. SCOTT.

whereof, I have signed my 1n the presence of lVitnesses: l

Ka'rn A. BnaDLn, HAMILTON D. TURNER.

having successive 

